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Jucks, Regina; Paus, Elisabeth – Metacognition and Learning, 2012
Learning from texts requires reflection on how far one has mastered the material. Learners use such metacognitive processes to decide whether to engage in deeper learning activities or not. This article examines how the lexical surface of specialist concepts influences their mental representation. Lexical encodings that are the concise wordings of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Familiarity, Metacognition